We’re talking cattle, of course, not football. Here’s what happened: A century ago, the longhorn breed teetered on the edge of extinction. After the Civil War, the great herds that had lumbered up the Chisholm Trail from Texas to the railways depots in Kansas for shipment east had suddenly fallen out of favor. Texas ranchers had become enamored with Herefords and Angus, which grew faster and were ...

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Seriously!?!? Is this the best that UT has to offer in terms of comments? I understand rivalry, but "OU still sucks" is about the lamest thing I've ever heard. It sounds like something an Aggie would keep humming and hawing about.